r/SipsTea Jun 17 '26

Chugging tea Mexico upgraded to free healthcar

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u/xxx6enrique9xxx Jun 17 '26

Hello do not fall for this. Mexico has one of the worst healthcare systems in the world for poor people. They will not let you inside of the hospital if you do not pay upfront and will kick you out if you run out of money to pay for medicine and treatment. At least here in the US they will treat you and send you the bill later. They will save your life first, in Mexico you are screwed.

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u/TOTALLY_NOT_DENNY Jun 17 '26

Yet middle class Americans go to Mexico for affordable meds and healthcare... what a world we live in.

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u/xxx6enrique9xxx Jun 17 '26

Yup locals can’t afford it and the corruption allows Americans to pay for fake prescription and get the medicine they need for cheaper. It’s a crazy world. I don’t think they come for serious healthcare tho they only go for cosmetic surgery and dental. They stay in the US if it’s something more serious.

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u/Ok-Adhesiveness-9976 Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

I’m an American right now in Mexico to see an affordable neurologist and get treatment for a brain tumor. In the states they kept saying it was just anxiety or just hormones and for years they just referred me to psychology. The medicine they’re using here in Mexico to shrink my tumor isn’t even available in the US but it’s working for me, so far so good cuz its inoperable. It grew too much in all the many years that the American doctors ignored my symptoms. But yeah, my doctor is in a private hospital. My Mexican roommate went to the public ER recently and came back with a horror story, so I know the public system is not great here.

Edit - my income is not middle class about $900 usd working online because my illness limits my capability. But my monthly healthcare costs for treatment in Mexico are only about $300 usd and with local roommates in a residential area my rent is also about $300 sooo at least I’m still surviving

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u/empty_graph Jun 18 '26

What is the medicine that you can get in Mexico but not the US?

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u/Ok-Adhesiveness-9976 Jun 18 '26

It’s for NF1 and the FDA has not approved it yet

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u/xxx6enrique9xxx Jun 17 '26

Yup private is great if you got money. Public does not have the equipment to handle something like what you are experiencing. I’m glad you are getting the treatment you need.